Chapter 12 - THE PRESCRIPTION BOTTLEThe bottle Vanessa held on the night Dad died belonged to Robert.
Prescription:
Clonazepam.
Low-dose tablets.
Prescribed after a hospitalization for panic and sleep disruption associated with heart symptoms.
He used it rarely.
The autopsy had found clonazepam in his blood.
Within a low therapeutic range.
No one considered it suspicious at the time because it was prescribed.
Cause of death:
Sudden cardiac arrhythmia in the setting of severe coronary artery disease and conduction abnormalities.
Natural.
After the timer footage, the medical examiner reviewed the file.
Could extra clonazepam have killed him?
Not cleanly.
At the measured level, unlikely by itself.
Could it have contributed to sedation or reduced his ability to respond to cardiac symptoms?
Possible.
Could a dose have been crushed into water?
Possible.
Could the postmortem concentration tell exactly when or how?
No.
Important.
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The video did not transform a natural death certificate into instant murder.
It created a medication-tampering question.
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